In the live broadcast section of the Star Network, Zhou Shudi’s live broadcast room is still going on. After choosing the live broadcast ** protection mode to hide his true appearance, the audience can only see the thin and upright young man in front of the cooking table handling the ingredients like flowing water.

Among the three dishes to be made, the golden snow fungus bird’s nest soup is the simplest and least laborious to prepare, and Zhou Jinnan chose to deal with it first. When the fresh snow fungus was bought, it had not been picked from the wood. Each piece of meat was plump and full, and crystal clear. Zhou Jinnan tore the snow fungus into pieces with his hands and put it in a bowl and soaked it in hot water. The bird’s nest has been soaked for a long time, and it only needs to be put into the soup bowl in a certain period of time.

He poured 70% of clear water into a ceramic pot with a diameter of no more than 20 cm and a depth of about 10 cm, and cooked it directly over high heat until the water boiled. Drain the snow fungus on the side and put it in, then add rock sugar and wolfberry in turn. As for the golden thread in the soup bowl, it is the peeled and pitted golden thread jujube. Only the flesh is taken out, and it is simmered with sugar water. The rest of the ingredients only need to be put in order at a certain time and then it can be served.

After doing all this, Zhou Jinnan brought out a round coconut. A huge coconut was shelled and the coconut milk was poured out. The snow-white flesh inside was peeled out separately and put into a special juicer. The snow-white finely shredded coconut and thick coconut oil came out. When the glutinous rice flour and starch prepared in advance were mixed in proportion and evenly mixed, osmanthus honey and water were added and stirred together. Zhou Jinnan’s hand was very steady when stirring with chopsticks, and even if it was measured with an instrument, it could only measure a uniform speed and the same strength.

 Zhou Jinnan filtered the batter with a strainer only after observing that there were no bubbles left in the batter. After filtering it three times, he continued to pour the squeezed coconut oil and starch into it and continued to stir until the bubbles disappeared again. This process was repeated, and the audience almost thought that the screen was recorded in advance and set to play in a loop. Many people couldn’t stand such a boring process and even quit the live broadcast room directly.

[It’s so quiet… Is there no voice in this live broadcast room? ]

[Why is the little brother stirring all the time without explaining? ]

[That’s right, I don’t know what the little chef is doing. I almost thought I was not watching a live broadcast because I saw him stirring all the time. ]

[I know that some food anchors are very focused when cooking, but this is the first one I have seen who is so focused that he doesn’t say a word. ]

[Can the anchor ask the little brother what he is doing step by step? Just say anything QAQ]

[Looking at the cooking process, it doesn’t seem to be difficult. This can also be called Jushanlou. Are you not afraid of embarrassment.]

[I can cook at this level, and I can make it at home. The knife skills of the host next door, Xiaoxiao Muyu, are amazing. A knife can carve a picture out of the ingredients!]

Zhou Shudi saw the feedback from the audience on the screen and felt that such a dry live cooking show was boring, but he was not the kind of person who could chat enthusiastically. He just reminded Zhou Jinnan: “Jinnan, the audience hopes that you can explain what you are doing at each step and what needs to be paid attention to.”

Zhou Jinnan was still concentrating on sifting the batter twice. When he heard Zhou Shudi’s reminder, he casually glanced at the screen, his expression did not change. But in fact, the first thing Zhou Jinnan could not accept in his life was that someone questioned his cooking skills. These viewers just saw the outline and dared to question that his level was just mediocre?

He immediately started to retort without hesitation: “It is not difficult because the process of this snack itself is not complicated. Cooking is not about showing off skills, but about letting the ingredients shine with the greatest taste in the hands of the chef through various changes and means. Knife skills, heat, seasoning, plating and side dishes, ingredient matching… Each one is a compulsory course for chefs. Just showing off skills without paying attention to other basic skills is just walking on a limp.”

[Wow – is this a direct fight with Xiaoxiao Muyu? ]

[The chef is young and has a bad temper. ]

[Do you know Xiaoxiao Muyu? Did you just say that her cooking skills are lame??

“At least I know more than you who can only point fingers.” Zhou Jinnan continued to retort the audience while pouring the fully processed batter into the mold with a thin layer of oil on the inner wall, and put it in the refrigerator to let it stand. Then, he turned around and picked up a duckling that had been killed and feathered, less than three months old. The duckling had been soaked in ice water for a long enough time to completely remove the blood.

Zhou Jinnan picked a silver kitchen knife of moderate size, and the light reflected on the blade was enough to prove that it was a good sharp knife. Didn’t they dislike the process just now being too boring? Then let them see the skills. Zhou Jinnan’s eyes condensed, and his hand fell with a knife. He used one hand to operate the knife and the other hand to split the bones, and in a blink of an eye, the duckling was completely deboned.

 Zhou Jinnan hasn’t done such a show of skill for a long time. The more he practices, the more he returns to his original nature. He also has various means such as mana and soul assistance. When Zhou Jinnan makes spiritual food, he hasn’t used simple hand skills for a long time, but this does not mean that his basic skills have degenerated and forgotten. He just changed to another way. Now, after many years, he still uses the knife skills that he is familiar with, and he is still handy.

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[……Am I dazzled? ]

[Did I press fast forward? Why do I only see white light flashing continuously? ]

[When did the pile of bones next to the duck appear? ]

[Slap on the face on the spot, are you satisfied now? Is anyone else saying it’s boring? ]

[The speed is too fast to keep up. There are still people who are so skilled in the knife skills of deboning a whole duck! Awesome! ]

[I timed it. Deboning is completed in three minutes. Respect.]

Not only were the live broadcast audience stunned, Zhou Shudi, who witnessed the scene directly, was even more shocked. He stared at Zhou Jinnan’s every move and kept it in mind. After Zhou Jinnan finished deboning the whole duck, he poured half a bottle of cooking wine on the duck, smeared salt, soy sauce, minced ginger, minced garlic, star anise and other spices, and then took the washed fresh lotus leaves to wrap the duckling and various spices for pickling.

At this time, the ingredients used to fill the ducklings have been soaked for a sufficient time. The glutinous rice that was steamed in the pot at the beginning was taken out, and emitting a faint rice fragrance. Zhou Jinnan poured the glutinous rice into the wok and stir-fried it with the cored lotus seeds, scallops, diced mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, diced ham, and diced radish.

 After adding dark soy sauce, the filling in the pot began to turn light brown. The red and green ingredients were glued together by the glutinous rice when stir-fried. The aromas of different ingredients gradually blended, composing a symphony belonging to the kitchen.

[I smell the fragrance! Can I eat this? ]

[It smells so good! Is this live broadcast room making fried rice? ]

[No, this is the stuffing of the eight-treasure gourd duck.]

[I secretly took a bite, it’s delicious! I am looking forward to the taste of the finished product more and more!]

After turning on the holographic mode, the audience’s experience can almost be immersive. Except that they can’t eat the food to get a sense of fullness and mental comfort, the taste is basically the same as tasting it on the spot. Therefore, just live broadcasting on the Star Network will not reveal the secret that Zhou Jinnan’s spiritual food has other functions besides it being delicious.

When the stuffing fried by Zhou Jinnan began to smell fragrant, there was already an unbearable temptation to pick up the virtual food from the pot and start tasting it.

After seeing Zhou Jinnan’s bone-removing skills in less than three minutes, no one in the live broadcast room complained about it being too quiet. On the contrary, the fragrance from the pot was enough to shut their mouths. The audience said that they could eat a large bowl of dry rice just by smelling this smell! They ended up unconsciously following this live broadcast room.

 After the fillings are fried, they are stuffed into the duck’s belly, tied with a straw rope in the middle to make the whole duck into a gourd shape, and then the whole duck is brushed with oil and put into the pan. It was fried for two minutes until the skin was colored and then he drained the oil and steamed it in the pan.

The golden snow fungus bird’s nest pot began to bubble at this time. Zhou Jinnan took a look. The slightly sticky crystal soup was light yellow, and bright red wolfberries were dotted in the golden mesh floating on the surface. He tasted it and found that the snow fungus just out of the pot had a light taste. The silky bird’s nest and snow fungus complemented each other. The jujube meat was stewed until soft and slightly sweet, and the lotus seeds were glutinous. This sweet soup is very suitable for girls. When Zhou Jinnan made similar sweet soups in the past, there would always be fellow sisters from the surrounding peaks who came to his door shamelessly.

 Seeing that the golden thread snow fungus bird’s nest soup was finished, Zhou Shudi adjusted the live broadcast angle and consciously scooped a bowl for himself to taste. He knew the effects of these three spiritual foods in advance, but he was still curious about their taste. Spiritual food is Zhou Jinnan’s name for these delicacies with additional effects. Zhou Shudi followed Zhou Jinnan in calling it so as he thought it was appropriate.

The first taste of the sweet soup is fresh like breathing in the woods after a rain in midsummer. Most sweet soups cannot grasp a standard of sweetness, and the preference for sweetness varies from person to person. The one made by Zhou Jinnan found a perfect balance in this. People who like sweetness will not feel that the sweetness is too light, and people who don’t prefer sweetness will not feel greasy.

As time went by, the batter with coconut and fresh osmanthus finished steaming and the inverted mold was placed on a huge tray. There was a transparent light yellow layer on the top and bottom, with a milky white layer in the middle. There was osmanthus in the transparent color. The pastry, which was less than four fingers high, was cut into diamond-shaped pieces and washed with cold water to let the surface cool thoroughly. Finally, the top was sprinkled with finishing touches, and the crystal coconut osmanthus cake was completed.

This is an extremely exquisite and small pastry.

The eight-treasure gourd duck is the finale. The cooked brown duck is round and shaped like a gourd that is cooked and dried. The skin is not damaged at all during the series of processes such as deboning, stuffing, quick frying, and steaming. However, when the gourd duck is cut open with a knife to reveal the filling inside, the rich fragrance rushes into the nose of every audience watching the live broadcast, instantly occupying all the olfactory senses.

 Zhou Jinnan slowly thickened the soup that oozed out during the steaming, poured it on the eight-treasure gourd duck, and let the soup gradually penetrate into the stuffing. The audience, who had long been fascinated by the aroma of the eight-treasure gourd duck, took a piece of duck meat before Zhou Shudi and Zhou Jinnan started eating. Then–

[I was wrong. I shouldn’t have been prejudiced against duck meat. QVQ. I declare that from now on, duck meat is my favorite food! ]

[I couldn’t help but take out my nutrient solution when I smelled it. ]

[This is simply the most delicious duck I have ever eaten! No other! ]

[Are the host and the little brother still missing someone? The kind who can sing, dance, warm the bed, and have been to the research institute, as long as they have meals! ]

[Please ask the host to draw a lottery!!! Give us some! ]

[Lottery +1! ]

As soon as the lottery proposal was put forward, it was immediately approved by all the live viewers.

Zhou Jinnan frowned in confusion: “Lottery? What is the lottery for?”

Zhou Shudi, who did not feel the danger approaching, explained to Zhou Jinnan: “It is to draw a certain number of people from the audience using the program in the live broadcast room and give them benefits. The anchors in the food area usually pack a part of the food they make and express it to the audience and fans who won the prize.”

“So we give them benefits for free?” Zhou Jinnan asked again uncertainly.

“Yes, it is usually given away for free.”

“Free gift?!” Zhou Jinnan repeated these two words in a strange tone, and his face suddenly turned pale.

The second thing that Zhou Jinnan could not accept in his life was someone trying to take anything from him…whether it was money or something else.

He was a stingy person.